dreaded meeting with Supervisor

[reppy007]

We ...or I used to have a supervisor that everyone seemed to hate,not that they are there to be liked or anything like that.This guy only had the companies interest in mind,every lineman knew he didnt care a less about us...and would go out of his way to plain lie to us,actually I think it was just normal for him.Before any meeting you could read others faces/minds......(NOT AGAIN)....yes again.I hate to bring this up,but on the other hand I wanted to ask if any of you have known the type.Anything he ever brought up in the meetings were negitive,so we always knew what to epect.....and now the good news about him.............there isnt any good news about him.:(

[Hebrew]

My present supervisor is like that.None of his team gets nominated for any kind of award,we are always damaging stuff,leaving late,loosing tools all that kind of thing.We never see things that need and stop to fix before it becomes a problem,never buy our own tools to make sure we can get the job done,never get wet to get a feeder back on an hour quicker.I can go on and on but you know how it is.

[MBIvey]

Got one right now. Jackass. He's never been a lineman. He was an engineer and a dispatcher, now he's a supervisor for a dept solely comprised of linemen. He had the balls to walk in on one of his first days and say that he was an engineer and a dispatcher so he "knows what we do." No one knew what to say, we were all shocked that someone would walk in and say that.
He can't schedule work for **** and likes to instigate problems with people in the department. We can't wait for him to be gone.

[reppy007]

WOW....you caught me off guard.....I just cant see it....but I believe what you said.....A supervisor telling a bunch of lineman that he knows what they do,but has never been in their shoes/boots....that type....never has climbed/never has worked on any hot or dead wire/couldnt figure out what size of wire his lineman talk about/doesnt know anything about the vehicles lineman use/most likely doesnt know the difference between the head or butt of a pole/doesnt know any thing about the sticks we use/doesnt know how to hang a barrel......It makes me wonder what he will think when he sees pole top rescue....back to the stupidvisor.....this $hits scary:nightmare::nightmare::nightmare:

[Pootnaigle]

Ummmmmm I had me one of them he told us he had never climbed a pole or worked primary but he hadbeen around it long enuff that he was sure if he had to he could. That simple stoopid comment told me exactly how much respect he had for a lineman and it proved true NONE

[reppy007]

Got one right now. Jackass. He's never been a lineman. He was an engineer and a dispatcher, now he's a supervisor for a dept solely comprised of linemen. He had the balls to walk in on one of his first days and say that he was an engineer and a dispatcher so he "knows what we do." No one knew what to say, we were all shocked that someone would walk in and say that.
He can't schedule work for **** and likes to instigate problems with people in the department. We can't wait for him to be gone.

Why would they...whoever is they, let this kind of non-sense happen? Has the person above the supervisor ever been a lineman? We had a batch of General Supervisors back in the day that used to be lineman....One was not liked well....a fat a$$ that would listen and sometimes ask questions to apprentices every six months during a verbal test.....a good apprentice knows his books and knows the rules.....this guy was surprised when the more difficult questions would be asked and answered.....he would have to get out his notes or ask the supervisor if the answers were right....so what business did he have even being there ? It wasnt like I had a bag of Dorito's for him to snack on......he was a slob type of general supervisor.

[reppy007]

While in the verbal test,the slob General supervisor asked me if I wore gloves while hot-sticking.....everyone knew that it was against rules to do so....so I told him no.....my foreman was also in the room and said that I was wrong....which I wasnt....guess he was trying to impress Mr.Slob.....stating that I would while on his army.....but never did anyway.....they asked me what size was our ground rods.....I responded that it was a 5 foot screw ground rod.....again the foreman leaped up and said that I was wrong.......which I wasnt:D.......then they asked the usual ...what connection do you make first on a set of drops......I should have said the hot legs.......then the foreman would have been right if he said I was wrong:D